Marcy Borders (August , – August , ) was an American bank clerk who worked in the World Trade Center and survived its collapse, following the al-Qaeda attacks on September , . Stan Honda, a photographer for Agence France Presse, captured an image of Borders, completely covered in dust from the building collapse, that subsequently became widely described as "iconic". The image became so well-known and so widely distributed, that Borders became known as "The Dust Lady".

Khalid Abdulrahman al-Fawwaz (خالد الفواز; kunya: Abu Omar al-Sebai (أبو عمر)Daily Telegraph,, September , is a Saudi who was under indictment in the United States from , USA v. Usama bin Laden et al., Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies accused of helping to prepare the United States embassy bombings. He was extradited to the United States and arraigned in October . Al-Fawwaz appeared on the UN Committee&#;s list of individuals belonging to or associated with al-Qaeda, and was embargoed as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist by the US Treasury&#;s Office of Foreign Assets Control. According to the Treasury statement, al-Fawwaz was born on August , . He moved to London in . He was appointed by Osama bin Laden as the first head of the media organ called the Advice and Reform Committee in London, where he met Adel Abdel Bari and Abu Qatada, amongst others. In , while bin Laden was in Sudan, al-Fawwaz was said to be attempting to pave the way for bin Laden to move to Britain. He was arrested under the Prevention of Terrorism Act , as part of Operation Challenge, which resulted in the arrest of seven UK-resident men, who were accused of links to al-Jihad.Hoge, Warren. New York Times, "Britain arrests suspected of links to Bin Laden", September , One of the men was charged with possession of a weapon. Six months after the arrests, British Muslims staged a demonstration in front of Downing Street to protest against the continued incarceration of the seven men. L&#;Houssaine Kherchtou, testifying for the United States, claimed that al-Fawwaz had been the leader of an "Abu Bakr Siddique camp", which he contradictingly placed in Hayatabad, Pakistan, or Khost, Afghanistan.O&#;Neill, Sean. Daily Telegraph,, September , His trial, along with his co-defendant Abu Anas al Libi, also known as "Nazih al Raghie" or "Anas al Sebai", was scheduled to begin on November , before Judge Lewis A. Kaplan. At the same time, his co-conspirator, Abdel Bari, pleaded guilty., Sep He was sentenced to life imprisonment on May .

The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (قوة الأمم المتحدة المؤقتة في لبنان), or UNIFIL (يونيفيل) and also known as the UN, is a demilitarized zone created by the United Nations, with the adoption of Security Council Resolution and on March , to confirm Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon which Israel had invaded five days prior, restore international peace and security, and help the government of Lebanon restore its effective authority in the area.

Najibullah Zazi (born August , ) is an Afghan-American who was arrested in September as part of the U.S. Al Qaeda group accused of planning suicide bombings on the New York City Subway system, and who pleaded guilty as have two other defendants. U.S. prosecutors said Saleh al-Somali, Al-Qaeda&#;s head of external operations, and Rashid Rauf, an Al-Qaeda operative, ordered the attack. Both were later killed in drone attacks. Zazi underwent weapons and explosives training at an al-Qaeda training camp in Pakistan in . On September , , he drove from his home in Aurora, Colorado, to New York City, intending to detonate explosives on the New York City subway during rush hour as one of three coordinated suicide "martyrdom" bombings. Spooked, however, by surveillance by U.S. intelligence, and warned by a local imam that the authorities were inquiring about him, he abruptly flew back to Colorado. He was arrested days later. On February , , he pleaded guilty to conspiring to use weapons of mass destruction, conspiring to commit murder in a foreign country, and providing material support to a terrorist organization. He said he was recruited by al-Qaeda in Pakistan for a suicide "martyrdom" attack against the U.S., and that his bombing target was the New York City subway system. Zazi faces a possible life sentence without possibility of parole for the first two counts, and an additional sentence of years for the third count. Sentencing was initially scheduled to take place on June , . Two of his high school classmates who had traveled with him to Pakistan, his father, his uncle, and an imam from Queens have also been indicted on related charges. U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder referred to the planned attack as "one of the most serious terrorist threats to our nation since September , .".

Hamdan v. Rumsfeld,, is a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that military commissions set up by the Bush administration to try detainees at Guantanamo Bay lack "the power to proceed because its structures and procedures violate both the Uniform Code of Military Justice and the four Geneva Conventions signed in ." Specifically, the ruling says that Common Article of the Geneva Conventions was violated.